Live the questions. Break yourself open to the audaciousness of possibility.

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For seven months, I have been frozen in writer’s Siberia. As a coach, I talk to myself as though I am my client. I ask all the relevant questions. I explore and encourage and sometimes poke. I’ve even resorted to flagrant bribery. I have found it fascinating (and at times depressing) to watch myself as a friend might, stuck in an ice block while carrying in my right hand a basket of kindling and a lighter with adjustable flame. Instead of striking the flint, I wrap my arms more tightly around myself and try not to think about the frost accumulating on my skin. Read more

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My new home doesn’t meet. The cabinets don’t meet the walls. The walls don’t meet the floor. The floor doesn’t meet the foundation. The locks on the doors don’t meet the spaces in the door frames. Like everything in Virginia, it’s old, which is part of its charm. But its shifting and settling has left narrow, disconcerting margins of air at the edges of every room. Read more

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“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Read more

Kassie Benham

Kassie Benham is a certified Integral Coach, writer, motivational speaker and cultural creative. She works with entrepreneurs, artists and individuals during times of significant change. Kassie specializes in Career & Personal Transitions, Well Health Initiatives and Personal Brand Development. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA and received her Integral Coaching degree from New Ventures West in San Francisco, CA.